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Eerie Prophecy Coming True?

Back at the beginning of this summer, the FX Network (in association with the BBC, I believe) broadcast an original TV movie called Oil Storm. It was in the mock documentary style and purported to tell the story of what happened to America after a series of catastrophic events limited the supply of oil. [...]

Keep Up-To-Date On My Blatherings – Like Magic!

Those of you who use My Yahoo! can now get headlines from this blog on your personal My Yahoo! page. Just go to “Add Content”, search (”Find Content”) for “Distance Redefined”, and hit “Add”. I don’t pretend to understand how it all works (I’m just a simple caveman) – something to do with [...]

Guerilla Filmmaking

Late notice here, but Reign of Frogs bandmate Greg took part in the Denver version of the 48 Hour Film Project this weekend. He acted in one of the “Group A” films (for the 4 Horseman Pictures team). The results are being shown tonight and tomorrow night at the Starz FilmCenter at the [...]

Marky Mark Trail

I recently took my digital camera with me on my morning constitutional, to take pictures of a prairie dog colony on my route. For some reason, the little varmints were really worked up that morning and were chattering like crazy. They sounded like chirping birds.

When I got home, I discovered that I had [...]

Layer Cake Is… People!

Okay, I admit that the primary reason I wanted to see Layer Cake was because first-time director Matthew Vaughn has been tapped to direct the third X-Men movie (as I previously mentioned in this entry). And I do have a soft spot for British gangster movies. However, this one has the old same [...]

Songs That Go Like This

Last night, the subject of Monty Python’s Spamalot came up during a discussion with friends. We all would love to go see it (except for Seth, who has never even seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail) , but it doesn’t look like anyone is going to be making it out to New York [...]

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